Sure, but basing that opinion on "if they want to pay politics", which is why it's relevant to this thread. Hence my comparison to educational institutions, which also don't pay taxes, but also play politics pretty blatantly. So why should one be able to and not the other?
Since educational institutions teach politics it would be impossible to keep them out of it. As far as taxing them I would rather they keep that money. I personally believe, and understand many do not, that education is far more important than religion and is vastly underfunded.
Agree. They are getting billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. Talk of welfare cheats! They should pay property tax and income tax like other businesses, which a lot of them are. Funny, all the screaming about "why should I pay for your birth control?", when birth control arguably benefits everyone, yet how often do we ask why should I pay for your church, when I do not agree with its religion or its politics, and get no benefit from either?
There is no such thing as "gay marriage". There is marriage. Fortunately, at least for now, same race and interracial couples, same religion and interreligious couples, same sex and opposite sex couples, disabled and non-disabled all have the same legal rights to the same legal marriage. It has not always been this way. There are those who don't like that equality in marriage is current law. They want to go back. They hope that Trump, Congress, and a far right Court will do that. They will have a hell of a fight on their hands.
@MarAzul was very gay when he got married. It's just that the gays have taken that word from him and changed the meaning.
Jesus fucking Christ. Marriage has been a religious institution in this country forever. I just read a website that claimed the first marriages were a way for a man to legally have a female slave.(not here, ancient history) Seeing as how I wasn't around back then I don't know or care. I didn't want to get married because I'm not religious. Unfortunately the government keeps many rights from people who don't get married so eventually I had to. If you want to label things as gay or straight there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to nitpick something I've been for the last 20 years (waaayyyyy before your anti illegal immigrant candidate was, flip flop Hiliar)
Nope, wrong as usual. Marriage is a civil and religious institution. It is legal with no religious ceremony at all. I don't label things gay or straight, MarAzul did by referring to "gay marriage". And yes, SlyPokerDog, we definitely had a gay old time at my cousin's wedding to his husband. Even the straight folks were gay that night!
